Favorite books in 2022

My favorite reads last year, in the order I read them (and I won’t go into detail on these because I’ve already written about them in earlier posts):

Nonfiction

• The Golden Thread, by Kassia St. Clair
• The Cubans, by Anthony DePalma
• The Dawn of Everything, by David Graeber & David Wengrow
• Stretching the Heavens, by Terryl L. Givens
• This Changes Everything, by Naomi Klein
• The Invention of Nature, by Andrea Wulf
• The Sixth Extinction, by Elizabeth Kolbert
• The Plantagenets, by Dan Jones
• How the Word Is Passed, by Clint Smith
• Human Errors, by Nathan H. Lents
• I Wish I’d Been There, edited by Byron Hollinshead
• Extra Life, by Steven Johnson

Fiction

• Ring Shout, by P. Djèlí Clark
• Network Effect, by Martha Wells
• The Curse of Chalion, by Lois McMaster Bujold
• Binti, by Nnedi Okorafor
• The Hands of the Emperor, by Victoria Goddard
• Babel, by R. F. Kuang
• Ogres, by Adrian Tchaikovsky